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We had a few wet flakes last year on May 10th so the above doesn't surprise me lol.

Yeah impressive temps up in northern IA. Mason City and Clarion both at 93 with time to go even higher. Up to 84 here, and 86 at DVN. DVN may make a run at 90 as well.

Had a nice outbreak of dust devils in this area today. Saw several on the way home out in the freshly tilled/planted farm fields. Best action of the spring so far. Made it to 68 here, 70 @ MLI. Back to the 80s tomorrow.

Getting very strong gusts from the mostly virga showers moving through. Some is reaching the ground but a lot is evaporating and it's creating very strong wind gusts. Picked up 0.04" this morning to bring the two day total up to 0.10".

zzzzz

Picked up 0.06" of rain this evening.

That would truly suck after the past few days of summer weather. MLI ended up with 87, a new record. Hit 86 here.

New record high for MLI today of either 87 or 88 depending on the rounding. Old record was 86.

Still 71 as we approach midnight. Feels like a summer evening. Still waiting on the first slight risk of the season. Don't recall making it into May without being in one but I'm sure it's happened. Very benign spring to say the least.

MLI has made it to at least 84 so far today. The record of 86 is in jeopardy tomorrow if clouds hold off long enough.

Getting a lot of blowing dust off the fields out here south of town. Looks like the dust bowl lol. 35-40 mph gusts the past few hours. Temp is up to 80.

We've already risen over 30 degrees from our morning low of 38 up to 69 degrees already. Should make the low 80s today, and mid-upper 80s tomorrow.

We got lucky and picked up over 3" of rain a few weeks ago, so it's not too terribly dry yet. Did go out and water a few things this evening though. Looking forward to the 80s Mon and Tue.

Virgafest here today.

Ma nature heard me complaining this morning and gave me a nice little period of light snow.

So much for a few farewell flakes lol. Whiff southeast.

zzzzzzz...wake me up in May

We've had the final event of the season graze/miss southeast in previous seasons so not too surprising this one may as well. Just give me a few farewell flakes during the daytime Tue and that's good enough for me lol. Def don't need that several inch scenario.

DVN point has snow going back to rain on Monday morning lol. Pretty unfortunate that they seem to be forced into using some sort of blend and not issuing a correct/actual forecaster based forecast. Pretty embarrassing really. Tuesday Rain and snow showers likely, becoming all rain after 10am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Chance of precipitation is 70%.

That's it lol. Go big or go home!

Pretty chilly evening to be planting trees lol, but did it anyway. Planted wildfire black gum, and dawn redwood. Here's a shot of the dawn redwood. This puppy could be well over 100ft tall someday.

And Cedar Rapids is the new Greensburg.

I've gotten in the bad habit of checking the SPC site every morning. Extremely quiet spring so far in the midwest.

Today was a perfect day to spend a good hour picking up all the sticks and little branches that blew down over the winter. The nice thing about this time of year is you can be outside at all times and not be harassed by insects lol.

This would have been one for the ages had it been a snowstorm. Couldn't get much better pivot point action than this. Will definitely go down as the highlight of April. http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/GIS/apps/rview/warnings.phtml?autopilot=0&osite=DVN&tzoff=0&layers[]=nexrad&layers[]=warnings&layers[]=cwas&layers[]=uscounties&layers[]=watches&layers[]=blank&site=DVN&tz=CDT&archive=yes&year=2021&month=4&day=11&hour=12&minute=0&warngeo=both&zoom=250&imgsize=640x480&loop=1&frames=150&interval=15&filter=0&cu=0&sortcol=fcster&sortdir=0&lsrlook=%2B&lsrwindow=0